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Arvind K. Saibaba

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arXiv2020

Randomization and reweighted $\ell_1$-minimization for A-optimal design of linear inverse problems

We consider optimal design of PDE-based Bayesian linear inverse problems with infinite-dimensional parameters. We focus on the A-optimal design criterion, defined as the average posterior variance and quantified by the trace of the posterior covariance operator. We propose using structure exploiting randomized methods to compute the A-optimal objective function and its gradient, and provide a detailed analysis of the error for the proposed estimators. To ensure sparse and binary design vectors, we develop a novel reweighted $\ell_1$-minimization algorithm. We also introduce a modified A-optimal criterion and present randomized estimators for its efficient computation. We present numerical results illustrating the proposed methods on a model contaminant source identification problem, where the inverse problem seeks to recover the initial state of a contaminant plume, using discrete measurements of the contaminant in space and time.

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arXiv2020

Randomized Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method for Nonlinear Model Reduction

Discrete empirical interpolation method (DEIM) is a popular technique for nonlinear model reduction and it has two main ingredients: an interpolating basis that is computed from a collection of snapshots of the solution and a set of indices which determine the nonlinear components to be simulated. The computation of these two ingredients dominates the overall cost of the DEIM algorithm. To specifically address these two issues, we present randomized versions of the DEIM algorithm. There are three main contributions of this paper. First, we use randomized range finding algorithms to efficiently find an approximate DEIM basis. Second, we develop randomized subset selection tools, based on leverage scores, to efficiently select the nonlinear components. Third, we develop several theoretical results that quantify the accuracy of the randomization on the DEIM approximation. We also present numerical experiments that demonstrate the benefits of the proposed algorithms.

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arXiv2020

Randomized Algorithms for Generalized Singular Value Decomposition with Application to Sensitivity Analysis

The generalized singular value decomposition (GSVD) is a valuable tool that has many applications in computational science. However, computing the GSVD for large-scale problems is challenging. Motivated by applications in hyper-differential sensitivity analysis (HDSA), we propose new randomized algorithms for computing the GSVD which use randomized subspace iteration and weighted QR factorization. Detailed error analysis is given which provides insight into the accuracy of the algorithms and the choice of the algorithmic parameters. We demonstrate the performance of our algorithms on test matrices and a large-scale model problem where HDSA is used to study subsurface flow.

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arXiv2019

Efficient Marginalization-based MCMC Methods for Hierarchical Bayesian Inverse Problems

Hierarchical models in Bayesian inverse problems are characterized by an assumed prior probability distribution for the unknown state and measurement error precision, and hyper-priors for the prior parameters. Combining these probability models using Bayes' law often yields a posterior distribution that cannot be sampled from directly, even for a linear model with Gaussian measurement error and Gaussian prior. Gibbs sampling can be used to sample from the posterior, but problems arise when the dimension of the state is large. This is because the Gaussian sample required for each iteration can be prohibitively expensive to compute, and because the statistical efficiency of the Markov chain degrades as the dimension of the state increases. The latter problem can be mitigated using marginalization-based techniques, but these can be computationally prohibitive as well. In this paper, we combine the low-rank techniques of Brown, Saibaba, and Vallelian (2018) with the marginalization approach of Rue and Held (2005). We consider two variants of this approach: delayed acceptance and pseudo-marginalization. We provide a detailed analysis of the acceptance rates and computational costs associated with our proposed algorithms, and compare their performances on two numerical test cases---image deblurring and inverse heat equation.

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arXiv2019

Uncertainty quantification in large Bayesian linear inverse problems using Krylov subspace methods

For linear inverse problems with a large number of unknown parameters, uncertainty quantification remains a challenging task. In this work, we use Krylov subspace methods to approximate the posterior covariance matrix and describe efficient methods for exploring the posterior distribution. Assuming that Krylov methods (e.g., based on the generalized Golub-Kahan bidiagonalization) have been used to compute an estimate of the solution, we get an approximation of the posterior covariance matrix for `free.' We provide theoretical results that quantify the accuracy of the approximation and of the resulting posterior distribution. Then, we describe efficient methods that use the approximation to compute measures of uncertainty, including the Kullback-Liebler divergence. We present two methods that use preconditioned Lanczos methods to efficiently generate samples from the posterior distribution. Numerical examples from tomography demonstrate the effectiveness of the described approaches.

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arXiv2019

Randomized algorithms for low-rank tensor decompositions in the Tucker format

Many applications in data science and scientific computing involve large-scale datasets that are expensive to store and compute with, but can be efficiently compressed and stored in an appropriate tensor format. In recent years, randomized matrix methods have been used to efficiently and accurately compute low-rank matrix decompositions. Motivated by this success, we focus on developing randomized algorithms for tensor decompositions in the Tucker representation. Specifically, we present randomized versions of two well-known compression algorithms, namely, HOSVD and STHOSVD. We present a detailed probabilistic analysis of the error of the randomized tensor algorithms. We also develop variants of these algorithms that tackle specific challenges posed by large-scale datasets. The first variant adaptively finds a low-rank representation satisfying a given tolerance and it is beneficial when the target-rank is not known in advance. The second variant preserves the structure of the original tensor, and is beneficial for large sparse tensors that are difficult to load in memory. We consider several different datasets for our numerical experiments: synthetic test tensors and realistic applications such as the compression of facial image samples in the Olivetti database and word counts in the Enron email dataset.

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arXiv2018

Randomized subspace iteration: Analysis of canonical angles and unitarily invariant norms

This paper is concerned with the analysis of the randomized subspace iteration for the computation of low-rank approximations. We present three different kinds of bounds. First, we derive both bounds for the canonical angles between the exact and the approximate singular subspaces. Second, we derive bounds for the low-rank approximation in any unitarily invariant norm (including the Schatten-p norm). This generalizes the bounds for Spectral and Frobenius norms found in the literature. Third, we present bounds for the accuracy of the singular values. The bounds are structural in that they are applicable to any starting guess, be it random or deterministic, that satisfies some minimal assumptions. Specialized bounds are provided when a Gaussian random matrix is used as the starting guess. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed bounds.

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arXiv2018

Goal-Oriented Optimal Design of Experiments for Large-Scale Bayesian Linear Inverse Problems

We develop a framework for goal-oriented optimal design of experiments (GOODE) for large-scale Bayesian linear inverse problems governed by PDEs. This framework differs from classical Bayesian optimal design of experiments (ODE) in the following sense: we seek experimental designs that minimize the posterior uncertainty in the experiment end-goal, e.g., a quantity of interest (QoI), rather than the estimated parameter itself. This is suitable for scenarios in which the solution of an inverse problem is an intermediate step and the estimated parameter is then used to compute a QoI. In such problems, a GOODE approach has two benefits: the designs can avoid wastage of experimental resources by a targeted collection of data, and the resulting design criteria are computationally easier to evaluate due to the often low-dimensionality of the QoIs. We present two modified design criteria, A-GOODE and D-GOODE, which are natural analogues of classical Bayesian A- and D-optimal criteria. We analyze the connections to other ODE criteria, and provide interpretations for the GOODE criteria by using tools from information theory. Then, we develop an efficient gradient-based optimization framework for solving the GOODE optimization problems. Additionally, we present comprehensive numerical experiments testing the various aspects of the presented approach. The driving application is the optimal placement of sensors to identify the source of contaminants in a diffusion and transport problem. We enforce sparsity of the sensor placements using an $\ell_1$-norm penalty approach, and propose a practical strategy for specifying the associated penalty parameter.

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arXiv2018

The Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method: Canonical Structure and Formulation in Weighted Inner Product Spaces

New contributions are offered to the theory and practice of the Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method (DEIM). These include a detailed characterization of the canonical structure; a substantial tightening of the error bound for the DEIM oblique projection, based on index selection via a strong rank revealing QR factorization; and an extension of the DEIM approximation to weighted inner products defined by a real symmetric positive-definite matrix $W$. The weighted DEIM ($W$-DEIM) can be deployed in the more general framework where the POD Galerkin projection is formulated in a discretization of a suitable energy inner product such that the Galerkin projection preserves important physical properties such as e.g. stability. Also, a special case of $W$-DEIM is introduced, which is DGEIM, a discrete version of the Generalized Empirical Interpolation Method that allows generalization of the interpolation via a dictionary of linear functionals.

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arXiv2017

Efficient D-optimal design of experiments for infinite-dimensional Bayesian linear inverse problems

We develop a computational framework for D-optimal experimental design for PDE-based Bayesian linear inverse problems with infinite-dimensional parameters. We follow a formulation of the experimental design problem that remains valid in the infinite-dimensional limit. The optimal design is obtained by solving an optimization problem that involves repeated evaluation of the log-determinant of high-dimensional operators along with their derivatives. Forming and manipulating these operators is computationally prohibitive for large-scale problems. Our methods exploit the low-rank structure in the inverse problem in three different ways, yielding efficient algorithms. Our main approach is to use randomized estimators for computing the D-optimal criterion, its derivative, as well as the Kullback--Leibler divergence from posterior to prior. Two other alternatives are proposed based on a low-rank approximation of the prior-preconditioned data misfit Hessian, and a fixed low-rank approximation of the prior-preconditioned forward operator. Detailed error analysis is provided for each of the methods, and their effectiveness is demonstrated on a model sensor placement problem for initial state reconstruction in a time-dependent advection-diffusion equation in two space dimensions.

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arXiv2017

Efficient generalized Golub-Kahan based methods for dynamic inverse problems

We consider efficient methods for computing solutions to and estimating uncertainties in dynamic inverse problems, where the parameters of interest may change during the measurement procedure. Compared to static inverse problems, incorporating prior information in both space and time in a Bayesian framework can become computationally intensive, in part, due to the large number of unknown parameters. In these problems, explicit computation of the square root and/or inverse of the prior covariance matrix is not possible. In this work, we develop efficient, iterative, matrix-free methods based on the generalized Golub-Kahan bidiagonalization that allow automatic regularization parameter and variance estimation. We demonstrate that these methods can be more flexible than standard methods and develop efficient implementations that can exploit structure in the prior, as well as possible structure in the forward model. Numerical examples from photoacoustic tomography, deblurring, and passive seismic tomography demonstrate the range of applicability and effectiveness of the described approaches. Specifically, in passive seismic tomography, we demonstrate our approach on both synthetic and real data. To demonstrate the scalability of our algorithm, we solve a dynamic inverse problem with approximately $43,000$ measurements and $7.8$ million unknowns in under $40$ seconds on a standard desktop.

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arXiv2017

Randomized Matrix-free Trace and Log-Determinant Estimators

We present randomized algorithms for estimating the trace and deter- minant of Hermitian positive semi-definite matrices. The algorithms are based on subspace iteration, and access the matrix only through matrix vector products. We analyse the error due to randomization, for starting guesses whose elements are Gaussian or Rademacher random variables. The analysis is cleanly separated into a structural (deterministic) part followed by a probabilistic part. Our absolute bounds for the expectation and concentration of the estimators are non-asymptotic and informative even for matrices of low dimension. For the trace estimators, we also present asymptotic bounds on the number of samples (columns of the starting guess) required to achieve a user-specified relative error. Numerical experiments illustrate the performance of the estimators and the tightness of the bounds on low-dimensional matrices; and on a challenging application in uncertainty quantification arising from Bayesian optimal experimental design.

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arXiv2016

Going off the Grid: Iterative Model Selection for Biclustered Matrix Completion

We consider the problem of performing matrix completion with side information on row-by-row and column-by-column similarities. We build upon recent proposals for matrix estimation with smoothness constraints with respect to row and column graphs. We present a novel iterative procedure for directly minimizing an information criterion in order to select an appropriate amount row and column smoothing, namely perform model selection. We also discuss how to exploit the special structure of the problem to scale up the estimation and model selection procedure via the Hutchinson estimator. We present simulation results and an application to predicting associations in imaging-genomics studies.

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arXiv2016

A Randomized Tensor Singular Value Decomposition based on the t-product

The tensor Singular Value Decomposition (t-SVD) for third order tensors that was proposed by Kilmer and Martin~\cite{2011kilmer} has been applied successfully in many fields, such as computed tomography, facial recognition, and video completion. In this paper, we propose a method that extends a well-known randomized matrix method to the t-SVD. This method can produce a factorization with similar properties to the t-SVD, but is more computationally efficient on very large datasets. We present details of the algorithm, theoretical results, and provide numerical results that show the promise of our approach for compressing and analyzing datasets. We also present an improved analysis of the randomized subspace iteration for matrices, which may be of independent interest to the scientific community.

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arXiv2016

HOID: Higher Order Interpolatory Decomposition for tensors based on Tucker representation

We derive a CUR-type factorization for tensors in the Tucker format based on interpolatory decomposition, which we will denote as Higher Order Interpolatory Decomposition (HOID). Given a tensor $\mathcal{X}$, the algorithm provides a set of column vectors $\{ \mathbf{C}_n\}_{n=1}^d$ which are columns extracted from the mode-$n$ tensor unfolding, along with a core tensor $\mathcal{G}$ and together, they satisfy some error bounds. Compared to the Higher Order SVD (HOSVD) algorithm, the HOID provides a decomposition that preserves certain important features of the original tensor such as sparsity, non-negativity, integer values, etc. Error bounds along with detailed estimates of computational costs are provided. The algorithms proposed in this paper have been validated against carefully chosen numerical examples which highlight the favorable properties of the algorithms. Related methods for subset selection proposed for matrix CUR decomposition, such as Discrete Empirical Interpolation method (DEIM) and leverage score sampling, have also been extended to tensors and are compared against our proposed algorithms.

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arXiv2016

Multipreconditioned GMRES for Shifted Systems

An implementation of GMRES with multiple preconditioners (MPGMRES) is proposed for solving shifted linear systems with shift-and-invert preconditioners. With this type of preconditioner, the Krylov subspace can be built without requiring the matrix-vector product with the shifted matrix. Furthermore, the multipreconditioned search space is shown to grow only linearly with the number of preconditioners. This allows for a more efficient implementation of the algorithm. The proposed implementation is tested on shifted systems that arise in computational hydrology and the evaluation of different matrix functions. The numerical results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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arXiv2015

A Fast Algorithm for Parabolic PDE-based Inverse Problems Based on Laplace Transforms and Flexible Krylov Solvers

We consider the problem of estimating parameters in large-scale weakly nonlinear inverse problems for which the underlying governing equations is a linear, time-dependent, parabolic partial differential equation. A major challenge in solving these inverse problems using Newton-type methods is the computational cost associated with solving the forward problem and with repeated construction of the Jacobian, which represents the sensitivity of the measurements to the unknown parameters. Forming the Jacobian can be prohibitively expensive because it requires repeated solutions of the forward and adjoint time-dependent parabolic partial differential equations corresponding to multiple sources and receivers. We propose an efficient method based on a Laplace transform-based exponential time integrator combined with a flexible Krylov subspace approach to solve the resulting shifted systems of equations efficiently. Our proposed solver speeds up the computation of the forward and adjoint problems, thus yielding significant speedup in total inversion time. We consider an application from Transient Hydraulic Tomography (THT), which is an imaging technique to estimate hydraulic parameters related to the subsurface from pressure measurements obtained by a series of pumping tests. The algorithms discussed are applied to a synthetic example taken from THT to demonstrate the resulting computational gains of this proposed method.

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arXiv2015

Randomized algorithms for Generalized Hermitian Eigenvalue Problems with application to computing Karhunen-Loève expansion

We describe randomized algorithms for computing the dominant eigenmodes of the Generalized Hermitian Eigenvalue Problem (GHEP) $Ax=λBx$, with $A$ Hermitian and $B$ Hermitian and positive definite. The algorithms we describe only require forming operations $Ax$, $Bx$ and $B^{-1}x$ and avoid forming square-roots of $B$ (or operations of the form, $B^{1/2}x$ or $B^{-1/2}x$). We provide a convergence analysis and a posteriori error bounds that build upon the work of~\cite{halko2011finding,liberty2007randomized,martinsson2011randomized} (which have been derived for the case $B=I$). Additionally, we derive some new results that provide insight into the accuracy of the eigenvalue calculations. The error analysis shows that the randomized algorithm is most accurate when the generalized singular values of $B^{-1}A$ decay rapidly. A randomized algorithm for the Generalized Singular Value Decomposition (GSVD) is also provided. Finally, we demonstrate the performance of our algorithm on computing the Karhunen-Loève expansion, which is a computationally intensive GHEP problem with rapidly decaying eigenvalues.

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